Green woodpecker & house martins
Today’s sun brought another 50+ house martins through the site on their southward migration.
A green woodpecker has been onsite this week as well, usually around Wetland Discovery and the old Tundra pen. A kingfisher has been showing best a Scrape hide and our favourite peregrine is still around, too.
Work started this week on the Arun Lagoon project at the Sand Martin hide. Next week this will likely scare the birds off this water so try the reebdbed and Scrape hides but pop in to see how the project is going. It will be finished by November re-establishing the islands in front of the hides. You can read more about the project HERE.
Wed 6 October
Reedbed: 1 stonechat
Scrape hide: 18 Canada geese, 1 greylag goose, 19 mallards, 3 shoveler, 1 little grebe.
Wetland Discovery: 1 kingfisher, 1 kestrel, c50 house martins, 1 peregrine falcon flying over, 1 green woodpecker.
Tues 5 Oct
Ramsar hide@ 9 mallard
Sand martin hide: 1 cormorant, 23 Canada geese, 3 gadwall, 1 grey heron, 10 mallards, 1 coot, 2 moorhen, 1 greylag goose
Scrape hide: 1 little grebe, 1 kingfisher (late afternoon)
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 20 coots (late afternoon)
Mon 4 Oct
Wetland Discovery area: 1 green woodpecker
Ramsar hide: 4 gadwall, 1 cormorant
Sand martin hide: 1 kingfisher
Scrape hide: 1 little grebe
Arun Riverlife;1 grey heron, 1 little grebe
Sun 3 Oct
Wetland Discovery area: 47 mallards, 1 green woodpecker, 1 jay, 9 tufted ducks, 2 Cetti’s warblers, 4 gadwall, 2 coots, 2 mute swans
Ramsar hide: 5 teal
Sand martin hide: 10 gadwall, 5 tufted ducks
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 1 kingfisher, 11 tufted ducks, 3 gadwall
Reedbed: 2 marsh harrier around 8.15am
Sat 2 Oct
Ramsar hide: 2 teal, 8 Canada geese, 4 wood pigeon, 5 mallards
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 12 coots, 2 little grebes, 16 mallards, 21 Canada geese.
Fri 1 Oct
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 teal
Wood Loop: 5 mallards, 2 moorhen, 1 dunnock, 2 chaffinch, 1 robin, 1 blackbird, 4 blue tits, 1 great tit, 1 chiff chaff,
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 10 shoveler, 5 teal, 1 lapwing
Thurs 29 September
Butterfly survey – windy conditions 10:30-11:30am
8 butterflies
- 1 small copper
- 5 red admirals
- 1 comma
- 1 speckled wood
